Preaching Politics: The Religious Rhetoric of George Whitefield and the Founding of a New Nation

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291 INDeX Adams, John, 154, 164, 167, 190, 239–40, 248–49 Adams, Samuel, 15, 53, 189, 195–96, 198–99, 216, 232, 235, 240, 249; rhetoric of, 227–31, 235, 240 American Bishop, 7, 163, 165, 172, 176, 183, 188–89, 198, 201, 204, 210 American Revolution, 1, 3–10,12– 13, 51, 102, 115, 148, 154, 164, 172, 209, 211, 213–17, 219–20, 226–27, 232, 238, 244–45, 247–49, 253 Angelo, Henry, 47 Anglican Weekly Miscellany, 86 Anglican, arbitrary power, 189, 202, 204, 249; British political influence, 133; conflict with Methodists, 124, 144, 185–86, 190; conversion, 27, 64–65; episcopacy in America, 6–7, 162, 176, 178, 185, 200, 204, 211, 218; opposition to Whitefield, 42, 52, 119; piety, 25; plot to assassinate Whitefield, 123; power of liturgy, 119; support of monarchy, 105 antirevivalists, 98, 109, 130, 138, 140, 171 apologia, 128 arbitrary power, 147, 150, 152, 156–58, 160, 166–83, 190, 194–95, 202, 207–8, 211, 216–17, 220, 222, 224, 228, 230, 239, 250, 252 Arminianism, 62, 65, 69, 79, 92, 106–7, 113–15, 131, 145, 177–78 Backus, Isaac, 178 Bellamy, Joseph, 225, 245 Bethesda orphanage, 94, 97, 130, 132, 135, 149, 168, 174, 202–3, 208, 211 Boston Evening-Post, 128–30, 134 Boston Gazette, 129, 134, 156, 158, 161, 201, 228 Broughton, Thomas, 36 Bunyan, John, 45, 84, 113 Calvin, John, 64 Calvinism, 17, 44, 64–70, 79–80, 92, 106–7, 114, 212, 140–42, 145, 172, 177, 180, 219, 235 Campbell, George, 11 Catholicism, 70, 105, 117, 139, 142–43, 147, 150, 154–55, 157–58, 160, 168–69, 173, 182, 185, 186, 200–01, 216–18, 220, 228–29, 236, 248 Charles Edward, 120, 148–49, 152, 154–57, 160, 166, 168 Chauncy, Charles, 12, 35, 86, 90, 95, 100, 106, 125–28, 130–35, 137, 140, 144, 149, 200 292 INDeX Christian History, 11, 60 civil millennialism, 7, 159–60, 172, 185, 190, 218, 224–25, 238, 245 Clap, Thomas, 35, 132–33, 140, 189 Cleaveland, Ebenezer, 213 Cole, Thomas, 23 Coleman, Benjamin, 133 collective identity, 4, 11, 17, 54 commercialism, 55, 104 Common Sense, 205, 231–41 conceptual system, 1, 3–4, 9, 12-13, 15-20, 60, 71, 76, 101, 103–4, 150, 164, 168, 178, 192–93, 203, 205, 207–8, 211, 213–15, 218, 222, 225, 237–39, 243–44, 246–47, 250–53 Congregationalism, 7, 57, 63, 98, 105, 109, 133, 175–76 Considerations of the Nature and Extent of the Legislative Authority of the British Parliament, 219–21 Convention of New England Ministers, 140–42, 161 conversion experience, 21, 24, 27–29, 33, 48, 61–71, 79, 84, 85, 98, 104, 106, 111, 137, 213 Cotton, John, 65 Countess of Huntingdon, 162–64, 194 Cromwellian Revolution, 6, 39 Curse of Meroz, 171–72, 225, 243, 245, 252 Cushing, Thomas, 195 Danger of an Unconverted Ministry, The, 124 Davenport, James, 84, 97, 125, 161 Davies, samuel, 168, 171 Declaration of Independence, 2, 179, 214, 222, 233, 238, 239, 253 Dickinson, John, 204–8 Discourse concerning Unlimited Submission , 164–68 Discourse on Christian Union, A, 177 dissenters, 43, 52, 105, 116, 120–21, 124, 129, 145, 147, 160, 165, 175, 177, 183, 186, 189, 199, 202, 216, 218, 225, 235, 253 divine right, 7, 166, 232, 235-236, 239 Drayton, William Henry, 227 Edwards Sarah, 85 Edwards, Jonathan, 12, 53, 59, 60–63, 66–69, 84, 97–98, 110, 126, 133, 144, 159, 161, 171, 178, 246 english Civil War, 6 Enlightenment, 4–6, 30, 40, 68, 79, 82, 124, 157, 228, 235–36, 246, 248 Enthusiasm Decribed and Caution’d Against, 125 enthusiasm, 88–90, 94, 96, 107, 109, 119, 125, 128, 131–36, 141–44, 160, 177, 194, 237 Erskine, Ralph, 115–16 Finley, Samuel, 171 first stage rhetorical topics, 16, 18 71–72, 95, 98, 103, 155, 157, 164–65, 192, 207, 221, 223, 238, 249, 265 Foote, Samuel, 22, 174 Franklin, Benjamin, 34, 50, 58, 73, 76-77, 85, 101, 173–74, 179, 198–200, 236, 240 Frelinghuysen, Theodorus, 60–63, 84 French & Indian War, 169, 185 INDeX 293 Galloway, Joseph, 179–82, 192, 196, 200, 230 Garden, Alexander, 35, 39, 81, 87– 89, 94–96, 102, 106–7, 125, 137 Garrick, David, 47 George II, 120, 124, 151 George III, 175, 185, 189, 194, 202, 214, 238 Glorious Revolution, 39, 151...